Box of ½ Gross ~ 1960’s

Squirt Gun Water Pistols

With Dime Store Display Box

You get them the way the dime store would get them. This box full of squirt guns contains 72 Red, Blue, Green and Yellow plastic squirt guns. Each is 2 ½ inches long and comes with a filling cap plug. They squirt 3 to 5 feet. They are patterned after a small pistol. It has a trigger actuated water pump that squirts a stream of water out the end of the barrel every time you pull the trigger. They have great details including trigger, handle grips. The filling plug has a captive feature that doesn’t let you lose the plug. Typical 1960’s Hong Kong import. You get the whole box full! Each gun has “Hong Kong” molded into it. 

The store display box has a fold out top back marquis with attractive graphics of a boy and girl having a water pistol target shoot-out. The front of the box says, Mini Squirt Guns ~ Water Pistol. The box is made of flimsy cardboard and is in generally good condition with a few insignificant nips & bruises expected of display merchandise boxes, "full" of merchandise. Hasn't seen daylight for over a Half Century, Sitting on a warehouse shelf in a cardboard Box of a dozen sets. 

Most collectors of “Point of Sale” merchandising prefer the original Patina of age untouched, and would prefer to repair it themselves, if they want the flaps glued at all. The photos are representative of the box you will receive. It displays well. Prominent Shelf Display. The squirt guns are in Perfect Condition. You get the Display Box and the ½ gross (72) guns. Ma & Pa stores used to have a different box of toys like these in a counter top display box. A jobber would come by and sell them 5 Cent toys like these by the display box every few weeks so they would go through a variety. Check the other 250 items in our eBay store. 

This item is typical of stuff in the large Dime Store merchandise finds we made. If you like vintage Dime Store and Variety Store stuff, bookmark us. 2 Lbs. Shipping weight. We pack it securely and send it Priority U.S. Postal rates depending on zip code.

Notice :

This item is a genuine vintage toy from an era when there were no safety standards. It probably contains, or is, a choking hazard, and probably includes other features that are not suitable for children to play with. It is not being sold as a toy for a child to play with, but as a genuine vintage collectable item for adults.